"On what plane of reality is it possible that two of the world’s most morally bankrupt corporations, Bayer and Monsanto, can be permitted to join forces to control about one-quarter of the world’s food supply. "

"When looking back at the collapse of Venezuela, I see that nothing there happened which was new. As many other countries that have experienced similar circumstances can attest, we went through 4 stages of collapse..."

"There are a lot of industries in our world that wreak outsized amounts of havoc. Think the biggest global banks and oil companies. Think plastics. But there is one field that is much worse than all others: agro-chemicals."

It was a great year to hold bitcoin, but a bad time to have bought the Uzbek so'm. 2017 saw global stocks, bonds, and commodities all surge as central bank balance sheets expanded at the fatest pace since 2011...

The order goes after "serious human rights abuse" and corruption - including misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, and corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources...